S adiq Khan the mayor of London has been honoured with a knighthood in the New Year Honours list. Khan said he was “truly humbled” to have been made a knight. It’s the honour of my life to serve the city I love” “I couldn’t have dreamed when growing up …

T winkle Khanna has graduated with a master’s degree in fiction writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. The former actress turned author described her graduation ceremony as “even more perfect” than she had envisioned. Khanna, who just released her novel “Welcome To Paradise,” posted a video from the event on …

A tragic airplane accident at Muan International Airport in South Korea has resulted in the loss of 179 lives, leaving only two individuals as survivors. The airliner veered off the runway and erupted into a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the …

Bangladesh has formally requested that India extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India following her removal during widespread student-led protests. This request presents a diplomatic dilemma for New Delhi, according to analysts. Since Hasina’s departure, she had been a close ally of New Delhi during her 15-year …

India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to …

The journalist and women’s rights campaigner Poonam Joshi has been honoured with the “Shakti” award at the annual Proud Indian Women Shakti Sangamam Shakti Awards held in Manchester. The ceremony is organized by the eponymous Shakti Sangamam, a Manchester-based group that empowers British Asian women of Indian origin through education, …

Shyam Benegal, the acclaimed Indian filmmaker known for his pioneering contributions to Indian cinema and for addressing social issues through his work in the 1970s, has passed away at the age of 90 after a prolonged battle with chronic kidney disease. Benegal was celebrated as a director, screenwriter, and editor, …

The Malaysian government has given the green light for a new search effort to locate missing flight MH370, a decade after the aircraft mysteriously disappeared. The government confirmed it has accepted a “no find, no fee” offer from a US-based company to resume the search for the missing flight. The …

Baroness Catherine Meyer, a Conservative party peer, is facing a three week suspension from the House of lords for calling her Liberal Democrat colleague Lord Navnit Dholakia as “Lord Poppadom” and touching an MP’s braids without consent. Catherine Meyer was found to have breached harassment rules in her interactions with …

The prominent Tory donor Lord Rami Ranger has been told to forfeit his CBE by King Charles over the British-Asian peer’s harassment of a journalist and making derogatory comments about other groups within his own community. An announcement on Friday in the London Gazette, which publishes the government’s statutory notices, …